Miss Rigby thought she was ready for anything the first day of a new year of kindergarten. She had the tables organized, the assignments ready—because Kindergarten came with assignments now—and was waiting at the door for anxious children and equally anxious, emotional parents to come. She was showing another student and his mother where the…… Continue reading Parent Teacher Conference
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The Pack Walk
For most people, the best thing about turning 21 is being able drink alcohol legally. For Radley, it was being able drive commercially over the interstate. Reading the big sign announcing they had crossed over from Nebraska to Kansas, a strange satisfaction filled Radley. “We just crossed our first border Castaway.” She told the massive,…… Continue reading The Pack Walk
The Stowaway
It was the farthest north they had even been. Past England, past the highlands, into the thick of Irish territory. As Captain Palmer walked across the sturdy wood, the cold air ran through her, sending short strands of short dark blonde hair and causing her to pull the dark blue jacket of her uniform tighter…… Continue reading The Stowaway
The Changeling
“How did your walk go?” Fae turned from where she was undoing the ombre pastel wrap she had their six-month-old daughter in, holding the babe close to her chest, to look at her husband standing in their kitchen. He looked like something out of a cheesy romance cover with his thick coffee-colored hair and red…… Continue reading The Changeling
Collared
The minute Scarlet saw the boy on the ground and the man standing over him with a whip, she knew her trading trip wasn’t going to go as planned. He wasn’t a small man either; he was tall and thick and broad shouldered, with a black wide-brimmed hat and a neat stone-colored beard on his…… Continue reading Collared
The Little Matchstick Girl And The Angry Mob
The story starts off very much like it’s been told. With a little girl, barefooted with tangled yellow- blonde hair, using the ratty apron to carry homemade matches, more matches in her hand, desperately trying to sell them in the fading light of the day, trudging through the cold as snow fell into her tangled…… Continue reading The Little Matchstick Girl And The Angry Mob
My Side Of The Story
I’m not really that evil, you know. I just get a bad rap. I know, I know, right now you’re thinking, “but you forced a couple to give you their baby, locked a little girl in a tower, and then when she got a boyfriend you abandoned her to the wilderness to die and blinded…… Continue reading My Side Of The Story
Yellow
Alex and Mollie sat alone in their apartment, wondering if they had made the right decision. The couple sat on the couch in silence, barely glancing at each other. They hadn’t been like this when they were committing their little act of theft or custodial interference or whatever it was, but now that they were…… Continue reading Yellow